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"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor."
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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."
"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."
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